Minnesota vocational educators implemented a statewide public opinion poll to find out what people knew about vocational education and how much and what kind of information the public needs about it. Some results and how they will be used in Minnesota's vocational-technical education system are given. (MF)

Regular and special education supervisors were studied to determine important aims for education, types of issues focused on in practice, how beliefs related to these issues, and how socialization influenced selection of supervisory issues. Results are discussed. (Author/DF)

Attitudes of 116 undergraduate students toward academic interests (mathematics, science, reading, writing, and oral communication) were compared. Findings showed substantial correlations among operationalizations for each academic area, but correlations between different subject attitudes were modest. Females had less positive attitudes toward…

Discusses the prejudices against those who study education and ways to combat these prejudices. Asserts that educationists should become experts in remedying stupidity. (MS)

This comparison of teacher education in China and the United States covers national policies, attitudes toward the teaching profession, and teacher education reform, and suggests that U.S. educators should be more interested in what other countries are doing in the teacher education field. (CB)

The American undergraduate arts and sciences curriculum is a great accomplishment, but is in danger of collapsing under the weight of its own successes, to its own detriment and society's. Its cultural and intellectual foundations are crumbling and must be reestablished. (MSE)

Notes the rapid rise of social sciences within universities of Brazil during the 1960s and 1970s. Identifies the interrelationships among the social sciences in Brazilian universities and their involvement with political developments. (JDH)

The study examined the correspondence level between the opinions of 600 Mexican American parents of children in bilingual education classes and 60 Mexican American teachers in bilingual classes. Parents and teachers agreed on rationales for bilingual education programs and disagreed on the operative features of bilingual education in the…

Factors influencing the resistance to French immersion instruction in Ontario are discussed, and the change theory approach to program adoption and implementation is favored over the reproduction theory. (MSE)

Examined what factors were important in the diffusion and adoption of the new social studies program, Toward a Better World. Survey results indicate that media advertisements were ineffective persuaders, while interpersonal communication sources appeared to be more important. Includes tables and references. (TRS)

Describes a pilot study conducted by the special Phi Delta Kappa commission to determine why people gained or lost confidence in education and schools. Results indicate attitudes are major factors influencing confidence in public schools. Suggests working on attitude improvement and developing programs and efforts based on periodic needs-sensing…

Observes that, in the face of curriculum reform toward educational "basics," journalism and mass communication (JMC) education must articulate what is basic about its discipline through a universal undergraduate core curriculum. Explores what current JMC cores reflect, and presents a rationale and guidelines for developing a universal…

Results of a survey of those charged with the training of French-speaking college teachers in Quebec universities concerning the importance of various aspects of education in general and of its value to themselves are presented. (MSE)

Demonstrates how minority "group" behaviors and beliefs can have complex and powerful effects on individual learning in the classroom. (HTH)

The personal reminiscences of a teacher educator ready to retire touch on changing attitudes toward education and the consequences of those attitudes: the shifting character of the bitter criticism teacher educators must endure whatever the current educational fashion. (PGD)